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PUAndrei Tarkovsky: «I never understood what cinema was. Many who entered film school already knew what cinema was. It was a mystery to me. Moreover, when I finished film school, I no longer knew what cinema was at all - I didn’t feel it. I didn’t see my calling in it. I felt that I had been taught some profession, understood that there was some trick in this profession. But to use cinema to approach poetry, music, literature - I didn’t have that feeling. I didn’t. I started shooting the film «Ivan’s Childhood» and essentially didn’t know what directing was. It was a blind search. I tried. I looked for some moments of connection with poetry. After this film, I felt that through cinema you could touch some spiritual substance. Therefore, the experience with «Ivan’s Childhood» was extremely important for me. Before that, I didn’t know what cinematography was at all. It still seems to me that it is a big mystery».
From an interview, 1984.
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